Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tonight, Dec. 8, 518 girls have chosen well ahead of time not to eat dinner, and to send the money to Mississippi. Those who wanted to fast, and thus contribute, placed their names in little paper bags--so there was secret balloting and no one was "pressured" into publicly signing up. Those who do not fast will be served a hot meal, so that they are not "punished" for lack of participation. And everyone lives happily ever after. However--there is a slight discrepancy between the $1.30 per person charged for dinner, and the 50 cents being sent to Miss...
...Mississippian. I make this statement with neither shame nor excuses, but with the pride of a member of a good society. I recognize that Mississippi has faults as does every group of human individuals. I further realize that Mississippi is misunderstood, unjustly accused, and judged in an uninformed light. In regard to the Mississippi Project, I will not attempt to justify violence or misconduct, from the Philadelphia incident to church bombings, on the part of Mississippians. On the contrary, I condemn such actions, as do do the majority of Mississippi citizens. But rather, I shall try to explnai why most...
...Mississippi is struggling to main tain a way of life. This way of life is founded on a set of moral principles just as firmly as it is founded on a set of economic and social principles. The majority of Mississipians truly believe that separation of the races is morally right, as the majority of Northerners believe integration is morally right. Because of this, it is obvious why Mississippians oppose COFO and the Project, which advocate integration. Yet the reason for opposition does not stop here. Much of the opposition is a result of the poor manner in which...
...petition attacks HUAC as a "libelfree center for false accusation." "The Mississippi press," continues, "consistently smeared participants in the 1964 Summer Project: they relied primarily on HUAC 'citations' for their smears...
...HUAC," the civil rights workers' petition concludes, "is the fountainhead of the threat to an open society. It denies what we went to Mississippi...